An AI that has a steady diet of Breakbeats and House tracks, a big brain but not so big ears, GESMI has appeared on four continents without breaking a sweat. A machine that learns, she generates complete tracks on her own, but has an admittedly bad taste in timbre and processing. Thus, Awkward Stranger has hand-selected the synths and plugins to make the music have a little human tenderness. She began life in the metacreation lab on Canada’s West Coast: http://www.metacreation.net/

(GESMI is a fully autonomous computationally creative system that generates style-specific electronic dance music based upon a machine-analysed corpus. The corpus consists of 24 Breakbeat and 24 House tracks that have been transcribed by human experts. Aspects of transcription include musical details, timbral descriptions, signal processing, and descriptions of overall musical form. This information is then compiled in a database, and machine-analysed to produce data for generative purposes. GESMI began producing complete breakbeat tracks in March 2013. For this release, GESMI’s output was massaged by Awkward Stranger, who selected timbres and signal processing.)